The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season in FL begins on Sunday June 1st, and runs through until November 30th. The months of August and September are considered the “peak months” of the season each summer. Have your hurricane plan ready!

What are the 2016 hurricane names?

Below you can find the list of hurricane names that will be used during the 2016 Atlantic basing season. Names are recycled every 6 years unless they are retired.

I just received a quick video update from storm photographer Jim Edds currenty in Bermuda awaiting dangerous Hurricane Gonzalo. Gonzalo looks to impact Bermuda in the coming hours and into this evening. Jim will continue to get updates out to me as long as he has connectivity and power.

The Latest Video Update: 10:30 PM ET - 10/16/14 -

Chasing Major Hurricane Gonzalo In Bermuda

Earlier this evening I had the opportunity to get in a phone interview with good friend and fellow Hurricane and storm photographer Jim Edds before the power goes out. Jim is currently in Bermuda to intercept and film major Hurricane Gonzalo, and sent in this latest video of all the preparation around Bermuda before the dangerous hurricane nears the island on Friday afternoon.

More Updates from Bermuda To Come

I will have another audio and video update from Jim tomorrow hopefully just before the worst arrives and footage during the hurricane conditions. This will be a ongoing post that gets updated over the next 24-48 hours.

The first weekend of August turned out to be a busy one storm-wise in South Florida, with heavy rainfall, waterspouts and vivid lightning striking a tall downtown Miami condo / building. All thanks to a tropical disturbance in the area, and outflow boundaries dancing all over the state.

Sunday afternoon I headed out like I normally do this time of year in search of late afternoon sea-breeze thunderstorms. The sea and lake breeze boundaries were a mess on Sunday, as the tropical disturbance over the Bahamas was creating a lot of thunderstorm activity and sending out boundaries in every direction making it hard to zone in on the best convergence area's.

I head out west towards my hot spots to chase near Lake Okeechobee. This is where I found an ongoing thunderstorm over the center of the lake slowly moving southeastward in my general direction. I was sitting up on the levee / dike at Port Mayaca and had a perfect view of the storm moving closer.

While on the phone talking to a friend, I noticed what looked to be a developing funnel cloud, but wasn't sure yet as it was covered up by some rain. About 7-10 minutes later the funnel became more organized and I had to hangup the call and start shooting video. Sure enough, a waterspout was developing, so I grabbed up my gear and fired off several shots before it dissipated about 2 minutes later. It was a very short-lived waterspout, and I wish it was a few miles closer so I could of captured some better detail.

From here I decided I would head for Miami in hopes of capturing some night lightning over the waterfront. I drove south through western Palm Beach and Broward counties on US 27 dodging cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. I finally got into Miami, and storms were moving in from the northwest and south-southeast. It was looking like a good convergence zone would setup not far from Miami Beach and downtown.

I setup a quick timelapse video (as seen below) of the developing heavy rains moving into downtown, and once I was over taken by the heavy rainfall I shot off the (top picture) lightning photo hitting the building along the waterfront. The storm lasted about an hour before tracking north-northeast up the coast and moving offshore.